Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
“Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.”
“I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.”